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Kid Roberts (Kane Halliday) "Millionaire Society Boxer" "The Adonis of the Ring" Born 1897 Career Start circa 1919. 195-196 1/2 lbs.
HW Yale 1917. Smart Boxer/slugger. with a punch in either hand. All around athlete: football, running, weight-thrower, boxing, wrestling, dancing, saxaphone. Thrown out of Yale, grades, didn't make it.
Parents wanted him to be an engineer. Allied aviator in WW I. his dad went broke during the war. Was playing FB for an Ohio football
team for $150 a game when he met fight manager Dummy Carney. Age 23 6'. Has speed and punching power. debut opponent Young Du Fresne in Sandusky scheduled 12. Kid has a great left hook. 1st Kid drops Du Fresne for 9 and twice more. 2nd kid hits him with a hard right but lets him recover, Kid stops using left hook. 3rd Du Fresne rough houses, puffs the kids lip & closes his right eye. Also staggers him. Gash under right eye of Kid. Works Kid's body. Rounds 4 & 5 more of the same. Carey sells Kid's contract to Murphy for $100 in 6th round. Kid dropped for 8 count saved by bell. Round 7 after inspiration in corner from Murphy Kid lands a right to middle and follows with a left hook to Ko Du Fresne. Left had been broken on a steam pipe prior to bout. Irene Gresham returns engagement ring to the Kid. "Special Delivery" Kelly next opponent, in Sandusky. Kid offerd $200 for bout if he lasts more than 5 and $400 to win. Kelly get $20 & tickets to sell. Kelly Fights Kid at Crescent AC. Kelly tried to use plaster of Paris on hand wraps, stopped by Murphy. Kid drops Kelly 4 times in 1st. In 2d Kid dropped by combo to body. Kid drops Kelly for 6 with uppercut to heart and right cross. Drops him 4 more times, last for 9. 3rd Kid drops him for 9 and sponge tossed in. After 2 pro bouts Roberts gets rattled under fire, Squanders punches in air, telegraphs, has no defense, and jumps back after a knockdown. Needs to develop ring generalship. Punches out Carney in altercation. In gym altercation drops Rocky Martin with staight left and Sailor McGann down with a combo. kid want to fight Kennedy. Gets Griggs as a tuneup for $700. Gets Griggs KO 1. Signs to fight Kennedy for $1000 with option od 30% of gross. Actress Estelle Van Horn meets the Kid at behest of Carney before Kennedy fight. 1st Kid bloodies Kennedy's nose, but is hammered by a hard body shot. Right hook to jaw floors the Kid for 8, left to heart after a feint to jaw KO's the Kid. Kid's nose broken by sparring partner, Signs for 6 round rematch with Kenendy for $750 in Philadelphia. Rematch. 1st Kennedy opens cut under kid's eye and flurries, but Kid recovers and drives himoff. Toe to toe and nnedy dropped for 9 and for 8, saved by bell. 2nd kid hiys kennedy who covers up and knees the KId in groin. Ref to award figth on flagrent foul but kid asks to continue. Kid breaks Kennedy's nose with a shot, and Ko's him with a right cross. Kid is good copy for press. After 16 bouts Kid has 14 KO wins 1 KOB, and 1 D10. Most KO's early. Now gets $3000 t0 $7000
guarantees for fights. D10 Tiger Caputo. Soldier Gorman fought Roberts in one of the Kid's 1st 16. Floored the kid in 1st. 2nd going toe to toe beaks 2 of the Kid's ribs before beiing KO'd. Rematch Caputo-Roberts New Orleans $25,000 purse with 60/40 split proposed. Carney wants a pre-arranged draw to get a 3rd gate. kid doesn't go along. Murphy learns that Carney is planning to kill the lights during the bout so Caputo can Ko the Kid in the 4th. The Kid, upset by the home crowd reaction Ko's Capto in one. Sails for England. Becomes engaged to Dolores Brewster. Signs to box Bandsman Shayne. Round 1 Kid wild Shayne opens gash on cheek with a butt-foul, and drops the kid for 8 woth overhand right. Kid's left eye closed. 2nd Kid opens with shot to Shayne's jaw. Clinching and shot to shayne's middle. Excahnges after Shayne fakes being hurt. One of Shayne's teeth loosened. 3rd Shayne works on the kid's eye and the kid works on shayne's jaw. When Shayne spits out his tooth he's aniled by a punch that lifted him 3 inches off the floor. KO. Kid vs, Henri Gournet in Monte Carlo. Ist late in round Kid sags Gournet's knees with a body shot. Moving in for a finish Gournet's feeble left to the face shocks the kid. oil of mustard on his gloves. 2nd Kid can't see and is floored often. After a ring accident the kid apologizes in French surprising Gournet who is clocked before he can recover. Kid Roberts vs. Dynamite Jackson. Jimmy Brandt talks the Champ into signing to fight the kid for $110,000, $30,000 for Roberts + $10,000 for expenses and 1/3 of film rights. Title Bout 1st round champ is cut over right eye, but he drops the kidfor 5 with a right to jaw and left to body before the bell. 2nd Champ comes out to end the bout. 3 shots to head and then he begins to work the body until staggered by an uppercut to the body and a left to mouth. Champ retaliates with a couple of low shots. Kid drops the champ with a rigth to ribs followed by a rigth to the jaw. 9 count. The kid is distracted and clocked in turn by the champ. 3rd. Champ figures to end it but is dropped for 8 by a right and for 9 by another right to chin. Champ beats count but falls swinging and is out. Kid on barnstorming tour. Offers $5,000 to anyone who can drop the KId in 3 rounds. Kid 197. Joe "Hurricane" Kenny "The Chickasha Bonecrusher" Obsessed with this. Kid doesn't drop him out of kindness. He keeps challenging 6 times. Not much stamina, punches himself out. Wants to bet everything he has on beating Roberts. To prevent him from losing his money the Kid beats his in a bare kbuckle scrap in the dressing room.
Roberts to star in Cuthbert Van Dyke's film "The Knockout". Young Abel Hamilton co-stars as The English Camp. Hamilton gets Serious during fight scene with Roberts filmed in West Coast AC. Opens a cut over the Kid's eye. Gets KO'd. Jim McManus, Promoter offers Roberts $150,000 for 20 round defense vs. Jack Enright. Roberts 12 lbs overweight. Enright takes 1st 3 rounds. 4th Roberts rushes, is hit in head and trades with a stronger puncher.5th tame. 6th Robers comes out swarming, drops Enigth who bounces back up stunned, dropped for a 4 count and poleaxed again but saved by bell. Roberts out of shape can go 2 more rounds, Enright ko'd in 7th. Kid's dad J.A, Haliday invested $150,000 purse into oil and the Kid make $480,000. Gets $250,000 wedding gift. Roberts vs. Pierce for title.
Roberts badly out of condidtion. Pierce works his body mercilessly. Roberts didn't train, was over confident and lacked stamina. Roberts dropped several times in 4th, right eye is closed and a rib is cracked. In 10 Roberts has a final flurry. split's Pierce's nose. In 11th Murphy saves the Kid from being KO'd by jumping into the ring for a DQ loss.

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